Cart with Persistent feature

[mamin]

Anyone knows if there is any Addon available for Zen-Cart which can save cart in database and available for customer for 30 days or so ?. Current ZenCart does not keep cart added item, if you close and reopen the browser or come back to the same site after couple of days. I think this is must have functionality which is not part of zen-cart

[kobra]

Current ZenCart does not keep cart added item, if you close and reopen the browser or come back to the same site after couple of days.

Sorry but it does save a registered customers previous cart

[CJPinder]

I've written a mod to do this called Keep Cart. It is available in the Free Software Addons Area:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...oducts_id=1433

Regards,
Christian.

[mamin]

I've written a mod to do this called Keep Cart. It is available in the Free Software Addons Area:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...oducts_id=1433

Regards,
Christian.

Thanks..This is what close to what I was looking for. Thanks a Lot...

it would have been nice if you would have added functionality with option of saving it to database...but this is great as well

Thanks
Manoj

[CJPinder]

it would have been nice if you would have added functionality with option of saving it to database...but this is great as well

I considered saving to a database but it didn't scale well. Using a cookie distributes the storage and doesn't require extra logic for cleaning up unwanted carts. Plus, storing the cart in the database would still require a tracking cookie on the visitor's PC to match the visitor and database entries together.

Regards,
Christian.

[mamin]

I considered saving to a database but it didn't scale well. Using a cookie distributes the storage and doesn't require extra logic for cleaning up unwanted carts. Plus, storing the cart in the database would still require a tracking cookie on the visitor's PC to match the visitor and database entries together.

Regards,
Christian.

Christian,
Understood...This is great module you have written..Thank you. I will try it out...

Thanks

[mamin]

I considered saving to a database but it didn't scale well. Using a cookie distributes the storage and doesn't require extra logic for cleaning up unwanted carts. Plus, storing the cart in the database would still require a tracking cookie on the visitor's PC to match the visitor and database entries together.

Regards,
Christian.

I installed and tested keep cart functionality and here is my feedback

1) Works great if brower where user left and come back is the same
2) Does not remember if browser user left and come back is different.

here is the scenario:
I added item in Firefox and closed the Firefox. Now opened the IE 6 and my cart was empty. I opened Firefox again, and Cart item was available.

Is there anyway, cart will work for any browser since it relies on cookies and most browser do support cookies ?

p.s. I am working behind proxy server but both browser is using the same proxy server.

Thanks

[CJPinder]

1) Works great if brower where user left and come back is the same
2) Does not remember if browser user left and come back is different.

There is no way of identifying the visitor if they come back using a different browser. It is just technically not possible. If they wish to do this then the only option for saving their cart is to create an account.

Regards,
Christian.

[marybeshaw]

I have installed the Keep Cart mod on my website, but I've disabled it for now. Thanks for making it easy to disable, Christian!

It has a flaw: product attributes aren't saved in the cart data. I WANT this feature but need to retain attributes. I have two product attributes: license type and download file(s).

Do you know if anyone has tackled this problem yet? If not, I will have a go at it.

Mary
http://www.designhousedigital.com

[CJPinder]

Hmmm.. I thought product attributes were already being handled correctly. I don't personally use them though so I'll do some more testing.

Regards,
Christian.